Carlos Vasquez, a worker for Eaton Good, said the event went extremely well andthat they ran out of food during the day.

“Sometimes we make more than this, but we did not know how many people would be here,” Vasquez said.Mary Torok, from The Smoke N’ Pig, said the event “was extremely successful. Lots of people, lots of business for us.”Cathy Weitzel, the Training and Development Specialist with the Michigan Judicial Institute, set up the audiovisual parts of the event with the committee including creating a slideshow showing off pictures from the construction of the building that began in 1999 along with modern pictures.

Weitzel also said she was surprised at the turnout, as people from the Michigan State Capitol, Lansing Library, Constitution Hall and others came out for the event.

“We didn’t know if the workers from the other state building would come or not because of the distance,” said Weitzel.

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